The key I think
Is to look at the lonesome
Like the fog I’m driving into
Or the stillness of the cars
The love so clean
Looking at your face
The edge so soft
Made softer by powder
Yeah the key I lost
Falling into my daydream
And I’m left with the phone
Ringing cold at me

The key I’ve found
Is to plan a reaction
Then at least I’ll be prepared
I’ll just act like I don’t care
Yeah I’ll have another drink
That’s the key I think
But I’ll wake up far too early
And no drink is sweet as you
I think we lost it all
Buried in the ground
Now I’ve had a little time without you

If I had a little time
If I had a little time without you

I’m dead and dank and rotten
My arms are wrapped in cotton
My corpse loves you, let’s marry

(Get smart, once) Every night at sleepy time
(Get smart, twice) I hang my skin out on the line
(Get smart, sing) Oh, darling, would you be, be mine

I’m in love, I think I’m in love

I’m caught in a mesh of veins
My fingers and flesh and brains
My skull gives head, so let’s wed

(Get smart, once) Every night when all alone
(Get smart, twice) I drape my flesh around the phone
(Get smart, pray) Oh, darling, would you be my own

Don’t cry, beautiful, it’s just a phase
To the father and the son and the holy ghost
I chant and I pray, I love

You know, God works in mysterious ways
To the father and the son and the holy ghost
I sing and I pray, I love

I’m soft and slightly stinking
My arms are small and shrinking
My lips kiss dirt, oh, let’s flirt

(Get smart, once) Every night at half past one
(Get smart, twice) There’s a little taste of things in come
(Get smart, chant) Oh, darling, can I be your son

Don’t scream, baby, it’s just a coma
To the father and the son and the holy ghost
I chant and I pray, I love

You go to heaven, I go to Roma
To the father and the son and the holy ghost
I sing and I pray, I love

Walking home on a winter night
They’re in there in their yellow light
Shameless stare at your homely house
They’re in there and they’re laughing now

It’s too late now for me
I’m on the second story
I will be with you
Some prayer words
You say them
And all the drunks say amen
I will be with you

Now that you own them
Wrap them in strings of light
Shivering omen
On the north wind tonight

Then her hand rings the dinner bell
Sturdy words and you know them well
Colder nights and you search for heat
Try the door of an old good friend

Taste this wine it will remind you
It’s a beautiful world, you’re a lucky girl
Sometimes friends they will forsake you
You can come around when they let you down

But you’re lovely in your dumpy dress
And your hair’s a mess and you’re so lo-fi
But for all the world you’re a lucky girl
Take a minute to be like lucky you

We go to the noisy city
Where I cannot hear but I want you near
Night time talking ‘bout your family
They’re a bundle of nerves
You’re a lucky girl

He says every day’s the same
They only have a different name
We’re solemn pacers taking paths
Commuting through the day

She says no it’s not that way
Tomorrow is a different day
We’re merry makers making plans
And breaking them

Jo sings high
Joe sings low
infatuation grows and grows
And every day in every way
A different thing’s the same

I take out the trash just like
I took it out the other night
A little warm a little cold
A little slower rolled

Look at them the deer you scared
They are almost never there
They run instead invade a different flower bed.

The doe sings high
The buck sings low
Life together grows and grows
And every day in every way
A different thing’s the same

Let’s get our house in order love
When raining comes down from above
We will hear and understand
The story that it tells

We all sing high
We all sing low
The combinations
Grow and grow
And every day in every way
A different thing’s the same

Lay on the couch and watch TV
This afternoon is the same for me
How can I laugh when there’s nothing to do
Go and play go and play
Well that’s easy for you

You tell me you are an optimist
Good attitude when you get your rest
Your platitudes are still the best
So you say so you say
I can hear the rest

You can do what you want to do
That’s the lie that they say to you
But at least today
You can do what you want to do.

Look out the window till you drive by
I think you’re way far away tonight
You never come till I look away
Maybe so maybe so
It won’t happen today

Put away all my comments
Put away all my reticence
Put away and we’ll finish all the chores
We’ll sit down and make some sense

It was fun 101 in the Mission
The Cottage sold so we rolled out of town
And we’re driving all the way
From the San Francisco Bay
And our plants died on the way
To Austin Texas, Austin Texas

I was tired and you were tired and we were cranky
By the time we got to Kevin’s house that day
At storage space we got
Our truck came to a grinding stop
Tore a hole right through the top
Got a fiberglass repair kit at Home Depot
Tried to fix it

Looking for a place to live we met Ken Pfluger
He was strange but had to say we liked the place
Here’s exactly what we’ll do
Take apartment number 2
We’ll move in and look for jobs
I hope it goes well
Hope it goes well

Look all day then take a day off
Hootie lent a hand when the times got rough enough
Married on a hill in the pouring rain
Jim had a little too much from the open bar
mighta known

Now we’ve got a big white dog and the Olinator
Take a drive and we’ll go by and see the place
But old Pfluger tore it down
A McMansion’s there instead
Cause the real estate in Tarrytown’s expensive
It’s expensive
From the Cottage by the Bay
can’t believe we made it all this way
It’s true they tore it down but we’ll remember
We remember

I was lost
When I went down to the ocean
Like a baby came to me
Like a baby in the ocean
And the salt sea misery

Leave me alone just for a while
I need a reason for these miles
If I’m here forever

You want me to go to heaven
I’m as close as I can get
Only fifteen miles away
And I dive into a wave

Here forever there are ships
This sandy land just slowly shifts
And they role the tide in

Like a baby in the ocean
(Leave me alone just for a while)

Okay, so this water came from rivers
And this salt came from the land
And my life is just right here
To make castles with my hand

Your highness issues a command
That I make castles with my hand
And they roll the waves on

Leave me alone just for a while
My sand crabs limping for these miles
I’ll be here forever

And it was embarrassing
By the campfire that we made
With these alcoholic songs
And the good news that they bring

Snare drum bass drum
Makin fun of me and I’m
Makin fun of you in the hot sun
Hangin in the parking lot is groovy
Like an indie movie let’s make one

Picnic table here is where we’ll gather
Drink a little too much and maybe throw up.
Fall in line we’re falling down faster
Leaving after Easter I’ll see you around

But I still I still remember this
Cause it’s that waylaid love
That we long for

When she sings we all line up forever
Cause we know she’ll make us feel that way
When she fades out on the song
It goes on and on and on

Friday night you finally got a boyfriend
Is he really sweet and up to no good?
Passersby they wonder at the laughter
LMFAO - I invented that.

Our bed is covered by your skin
Looked at by your eyes
Our life goes very well with wine
You speak like falling leaves

And the Dragonflies hang heavy
And everyone’s asleep
Oh, in the summer I can’t sleep
And the Dragonflies hang heavy
I’ve promises to keep
Oh, when you look at me so deep

We fight and you will always win
On that you can rely

In the afternoon
In the after June
In the days of separation
I look at you
And what I see
Accepts my resignation

I get my satisfaction
I get my fire too
I get the same reaction
From you

In the room upstairs
Come up for air
On the way to getting even
You’re stormy and clear
You’re far and near
In the empty hours of heaven

Accept my resignation
And I try my best but I can’t succeed
We’ll drive all over creation
And we’ll look and see
And we’ll wait and see

In a slow down mode
With a heavy load
And you say I’m just a cheater
With the slightest luck
If we cover and duck
It will only be the sweeter

Do you remember the night
We lost Lorraine
With soggy shoes
And a baby in a backpack
Nowhere to park
It was light and dark
We had zero bars
In the middle of the city

In a fit of pique
You confronted me
And the drama was on
We were singing our fight song
Sing it loud until you’re heard by
all the world

We fight to win until we know we’ve won
We clothe our child and guard her from the sun
First things arrive and they are always there
We fight to win and play the game again

In a couples dance
we were past romance
Always running hot
While we’re burning through your fortune
With friends like these
We’ll be on our knees again

We fight to win until we know we’ve won
We clothe our child and guard her from the sun
We make amends for all we’ve left undone
We fight to win and play the game again

Do you remember the time
We were fierce in love
but now you’re mean
and I’m phony as a lip-sync
Sing our song a fight song
Like first things

It was yes yes yes in the freight train rain
I was calling I was driving
I was training incognito low
Yes it’s heaven’s best in the freight train rain

And it’s no no no it’s just words nothing more
That I’m living, that I’m breathing
And it’s no no no I can’t take it
Yes I think that I’ll just up and die

It was yes yes yes in the freight train rain
Only snowy six fifteen
And who cares if you’ve been up all night
Yes I did my best in the freight train rain

It was yes yes yes in the freight train rain
And I may not move too fast
I’ve been pissing please in a rising breeze
Only soulless drums in the freight train rain

It was yes yes yes in the freight train
You know it took me these 17 years
And I still might hear words on occasion
When ears need a rest in the freight train rain